No the story said hid award from students...most of them Asian. Well 60-70% of the students are Asian.... Article never said non minority or non Black...that was your editorial . The.school held back the certificates of achievement not the winners.of the actual National Merit Semifinalists. Their policy was not races based and no where in the.article does it imply...just says administrators.chose.to.not inform the students who won the secondary.award. The.administrations decision was based stupidly on not handing out the.awards to avoid those who didnt get the award.from feeling bad. NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. This is how.simple.stories get blown up and repeated wrong. It isnt a critical race fake story...just a stupid " we dont want non winners to feel bad" bullshit.
"Equity" programs which demean and abuse children are no different than CRT. In this case to promote "equity" among races in the high school, the administrators took away the providing the National Merit Awards which caused significant harm to the students in regards to them getting admitted into colleges and awarded scholarships. At least two administrators need to be held accountable in this school for their unacceptable actions --- all done on the basis of "equity" associated with eliminating any differences in performance based on race -- effectively turning the entire high school into a "participation trophy". This is not about merely avoiding "making the non-winners to feel bad" -- it was all about avoiding the recognition of significant awards based on merit to eliminate any possible differences between races. Sadly in this particular school -- the "equity" program landed up holding back students who were immigrants, handicapped, and/or minorities.
Dude...you are the only one mentioning race...two articles went into detail on this issue and none of them said race was the factor....even the person complaining did not say it was a race issue. You want to complain about what happened at least read the article correctly and dont interject something out of left field just so you can pound the crt race drum. The award was withheld by EVERYONE who got the commendation not from any specific race. The rationale was not due to race...it was to not make those who didnt get it feel bad...without regard to race. So you can criticize the poor decision of the administrators to make everyone feel happy. First you said non-minority which you made up because it was never said in the article. Then you said it was about Asians v. Non Asians which was also wrong... you.keep trying to insert a CRT race element when this was a simple "everybody is special" bullshit plain and simple. Dude..70% of the school are minorities and the entire school is filled with highest performing achievers in the State...there are no racial divides in performance. The school just came up with a stupid approach to make the non winners feel.good when they never felt bad to begin with.
yes Everything involving non-whites is through a racial lens w/GWB, he then pearl clutches when the garbage policies he promotes result in education saboteurs burning books. revising and whitewashing crimes in history. Holocaust denialism by a different name really.
While the CRT card worked for Youngkin in the 2021 Virginia governor race; it was far less impressive in the recent 2022 mid-terms. Taking what should be a local school board issue and trying to push it at the state level does not work out very well. Midterms indicate cracking down on critical race theory in public schools won’t win Republicans many new voters https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...schools-wont-win-republicans-many-new-voters/ As Republican Party leaders weigh future campaign strategies after their disappointing midterm results, they should carefully consider whether it’s worth continuing to push K-12 classroom controversies about critical race theory (CRT) and gender at the state level. While substantive education issues are important to voters, leaning heavily into classroom culture wars hasn’t won over large percentages of swing voters like Republicans expected. And it’s also bad policy. To be sure, some of the Republican Party’s top performers in the midterms cruised to re-election after signing laws restricting public schools from teaching “divisive concepts,” including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot. But these election successes could just as easily be attributed to the candidates’ minimally restrictive COVID-19 policies and being in comfortably red states. Republican gubernatorial candidates in other states like Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin who heavily campaigned against CRT didn’t get enough traction from the issue to win. Similarly, local and state school board candidates running to get CRT and other controversial subjects out of classrooms saw checkered results, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press. During the 2021 and 2022 legislative sessions, “Education Week” found that state legislators or state school boards in 17 states successfully adopted policies that limit how school staff can address certain “divisive concepts” with students. Most of these policies restrict how educators can discuss concepts of race, gender, sexuality and more. This wave of legislation came in response to a select number of troubling accounts — reported most prominently by the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo — going viral as some local public school staff adopted highly politicized curricula. For example, one California school district asked its third-graders to sort themselves on “oppression matrices” by race, class and gender. While these individual instances are certainly disturbing, many of the one-size-fits-all state policies adopted in response have gone too far and raise serious questions of constitutionality. Legislation passed in Texas, for example, flat out banned any curriculum that requires an understanding of the 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine book that, while flawed, even according to its critics pursues “a worthwhile avenue of historical research.” Oklahoma’s 2021 anti-CRT law caused two school districts to be at risk of losing accreditation for a teacher training video that discussed implicit bias toward minorities. This summer, a similar anti-CRT law in Tennessee law gave a parents’ rights advocacy organization grounds to sue one school district over its elementary English curriculum for reasons including its presentation of the Civil Rights movement, segregation, the Civil War, and Greek mythology. At face value, the concepts outlined in most of these policies seem trivially easy to avoid. It’s hard to believe many teachers want to teach students that one race is inherently superior to another or that an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by their sex. But as early rounds of litigation from various groups seeking to ban content from classrooms indicate, these lawsuits and complaints will keep coming because concepts that some special interest group or parent object to can be detected when reading between the lines of almost any lesson plan. While taxpayers have a right to shape curriculum and hold schools in check when they get too ideological in classrooms, statewide policies that make difficult-to-interpret prohibitions on lesson content are the wrong tool. Parents and voters have better avenues to express their views beyond asking governors and legislators to micromanage classrooms. The best approach is for parents and policymakers to advocate for expanding school choice — which allows families to sidestep the culture wars and vote with their feet about the education environment they want by choosing the right school for their child. School choice is popular among voters, with a June poll from Real Clear Opinion Research showing 75 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of Democrats supporting the concept. By contrast, an April poll from NPR found that just 18 percent of parents disagreed with what their child’s school taught about gender and sexuality. Leading with culture war issues like banning books and opposing teaching CRT in classrooms wasn’t the political juggernaut Republicans had hoped would help them gain ground in state and federal office, but school choice could be. Rather than further politicize schools and classrooms, politicians should pursue policies that let parents choose whatever school is best for their children.
Let's take a look at the false claim stating teachers in Dallas are no longer allowed to say "slavery" in class due to education changes in Texas. Dallas teachers not banned from saying ‘slavery’ in class https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-education-CRT-racism-slavery-texas-117361570762 CLAIM: Teachers in the Dallas public school system can no longer say the word “slavery” in class. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Dallas Independent School District says it hasn’t banned use of the word. The Texas Board of Education said it is not considering curriculum changes that would downplay the role of slavery in American history, either. The statewide teachers’ union says it’s not aware of any other Texas school districts restricting use of the word “slavery.” THE FACTS: Social media users are voicing concerns this week that schools in Texas are trying to diminish the role of slavery in American history amid an ongoing debate about critical race theory, an academic approach that emphasizes the impact of systemic racism on the country. “Just jumping in here to remind everyone that as we end the year, in school districts like Dallas ISD teachers are not allowed to use the word ‘slavery’ in class and are still awaiting to see what term that they can use to describe slavery, such as ‘involuntary relocation’,” a Twitter user wrote in a post that’s been shared or liked more than 38,000 times as of Thursday. But teachers and school officials in Texas say no such ban exists. “This is simply inaccurate,” Robyn Harris, a spokesperson for the Dallas Independent School District, wrote in an email. “There is nothing in Dallas ISD policy that limits teachers from using that word.” Rena Honea, president of the Dallas teachers’ union, concurred, writing in an email Thursday that she had confirmed with top district administrators this week that there have been no policy changes to prevent uttering “slavery” in class. Nicole Hill, a spokesperson for the Texas AFT, said the statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers also isn’t aware of any other Texas school districts restricting use of the word. The claims come following an uproar this summer over a statewide curriculum change proposed by Texas education officials. The controversial proposal would have incorporated the phrase “involuntary relocation” into some elementary school lesson plans to describe how African people were sold into slavery and forcefully transported to America. But the Texas Board of Education ultimately rejected the proposal -- which has been misinterpreted as a plan to ban using the word slavery outright -- over concerns the phrase “did not paint a clear or full picture” of the devastating human trade. “This board is committed to the truth, which includes accurate descriptions of historical events,” Keven Ellis, the board’s chairman, said in a statement at the time. “Our state’s curriculum will not downplay the role of slavery in American history.” Jacob Kobersky, a spokesperson for the Texas Education Agency, which oversees primary and secondary public education in the state, said Thursday that no action has been taken on the recommendations since. The board’s broader review of statewide curriculum standards has been pushed into 2025. “There is nothing that prevents the teaching of slavery in Texas classrooms and nothing that prohibits the use of the word ‘slavery’ in Texas schools,” he said by phone. Still, labor union officials argue the false claims underscore the “climate of fear” among teachers about what they can safely say about American history and current events in the wake of the debate over critical race theory. Last year, Texas lawmakers enacted legislation preventing the teaching of CRT in local schools that included language limiting how slavery could be described. “This is exactly what happens when politics is injected into the curriculum,” Zeph Capo, president of the Texas AFT, wrote in an email. “Now we are left with this ambiguity that is a breeding ground for fear, rumor and bad local policy.” Developed by scholars in the 1970s and 1980s, critical race theory centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society. There is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being presented to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it have been, such as the lingering consequences of slavery, the AP has reported.
When Youngkin took office CRT issues.magically went away in.VA and were never discussed......BECAUSE THE PROBLEM NEVER EXISTED! youngy got the sheeple riled up.and once elected just walked away from the non issue haha....
As a follow-up...Governor Youngkin is ordering an investigation of this school which robbed its students of opportunities by not providing the National Merit awards in the name of "equity". I predict this will not go well for the school --- since the behavior of the administrators is simply outrageous. Governor Youngkin Directs Virginia AG to Investigate Thomas Jefferson High School for Discriminating in Name of Equity https://www.yahoo.com/news/governor-youngkin-directs-virginia-ag-193503387.html
at least you cleaned up the non-minority and Asian language out of the headlines The story was not about discrimination on race or anything like that, the school was takings tupid action to make non award winners not feel bad. Award winners and non award winners are made up of diferent races. However 70% of the school is Asian so some people are trying to insert a racial element but asian students both won and did not win the award. It was a stupid policy based on making losers not feel like losers haha